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Lovnox, January 17.

The meeting of the Associated Chambers of Com- merce in Great Britain passed a resolution urging the Government further to improve the British consular service in order to facilitate British trade abroad,

Sir George Renwick, M.P., in inving the resolution, declared that Britain was losing herexport trade because the consular service was inadequate underpaid and understaffed,

GERMAN STEAMER AFIEK.

NAPPHA CARGO EXPLODES.

ELEVEN LIN RÀ LUIST IN THE NORTH SEA.

Loxios, January 17.

Eleven lives were lost as the result of the burning tu the North Sea of the Germ in steamer Vesta" whose cargo of naphtha exploded. One boat was destroyed and another swept away by the heavy sons. Three men were drowned. Saveral members of the crew, including the mate with his uewly married wife in his arms were carried overboard and drowned. 4 Lowestoft trawler very pluckily rescued ten survivors.

BILLS OF LADING CONDITIONS.

Sir William Clark, Permanent Under-Secretary the Department of Overseas Trade, emphasised that much had been done during the past few years to im prove the consular service. Salaries had been raised BRITISH TRADERS' ASSOCIATIONS FEDERATE- and housing improved. The salaried personnel had been increased from 358 to 510 and the servies to-day cost over £1,000,000 compared with £100,000 before the war. It was quite impracticable to abolish foreigners entirely waing to cos! but improvements were being made who

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EVER RE DY LONDON

SEINE DEPARTMENT BORROWING 1994 900.

PARIS, Janey 17.

1 new deportate, raising me a foreign country, has been taken by the Seine Department which has born authorised to issue 19,000,000 warth of bonds in London at au interest of 7 per eut en leemnable in sterling thirty years hence.

SEV GRE EARTHQUAKE SHOCK

WASHINGTON FEELS TREMORS.

WASHINGTON, January 1.

Au earthquake shock describod as very sev re and estimated to bave occurred 2,500 miles swath of Was- hington was recorded by the seismograph at midnight. The shock lasted over an hour.

TREASURY BOND.

1980 AND 1927 ISSUES.

LONDON, January 17. Receipt of applications for 53 per cent Treasury Boods due on May 15, 1930 terminater with the.cles of business to-day. On and after January 23 applications will be received for the issue of five per cent. Treasury Bonds due on February 1, 1927, at the same price of the issue, namely ninety-nine.

FUNDING OF A LIEO DEBT.

HARDING APPROVES SENATE BILL.

WASHINGTON, Jaunaty 17.

Loxpoy, January 17.

As the outcome of a committee under the chairman ship of Sir Stephen. Demetriadi established in 1920 to discuss the conditions certain shipowansen Izavoured to impose regarding dia howard bills of lading. a federation of British plers associations was formed to- day comp ising prominent oilseed, cotton, ten jute, and shellar associations. The inaugural meeting passed a resolution urging legislation, on the laws of the Imperial Shipping Committe»'s report and declined to gecept the Hague ruls. but offered to meet the shipowners to discuss the definitive form of a hill of lating acceptable to both sides.

$329,005.000 CHANNEL SCHEME.

LINKING OREAT LAKES WITH THE SEA.

WASHINGTON, January 17.

President Harding has transmitted no comment to the Senate on the joint commission'a report accommend - ing the areation of Lakes to the Atlantic scheme. Engineers estimate the cost of a 30 foot chaunel on the Saint Lawrence from Lake Ontario to Montreal at $269,000,000 dollars and on the Wallend Canal at $60,000,000.

A previous message said:-A bill has been introduced into the House of Representatives authoris- ing the construction of a channel connecting the Great Lakes with the sea vin Wallend Canal and the St. Lawrence River, the expense to be borne equally by the United States and Cana 'a. |

President Harding intends to us his influence to commence negotiations for an Anglo American treaty with a view to improvement of the river Saint Lawrence between Lake Ontario and Montreal.

KI\CH >W'S IRON AND COAL MINES.

CHINESE AND JAPANESE DISAGREE.

WASHINGTON, January 17, Virtually no progress was made at to-day's Chinese and Japanese conferenc: which dealt with the question it is officially stated that the Senate bill dealing of the iron un I coal min in the Kianchow lea-ehold, with the funding of allied debte meets with President į The Chinese desired to control the miges Harding's approval.

offering the Japanese a 50 per cent share in the capital, but the Japaness objected and intimated they would require joint control.

TWENTY-SIX NATIONS CONFERENCE.

TACKLING WORLD ECONOMIC PROBLEMS.

LONDON, January 17, Twenty-four European nations have becu invited to the Genoa Conference in addition to the United States and Japan. It is at doubtful whether the British Dominions will be represented.

A Japanese delegate, interviewed, declared that the dispute was similar to the discussion which took place over the control of the Shautung Railway.

LATER, The Japanese delegate atated that the Japanese suggested joint control of the mines by Sino-Japanese companies, the two Governments being in nowise party to the arrangement, details, of which should be left to a THE HAGUE, January 17, Holland has been invited to the Geron Con-Sino-Japanese commission. The Chinese declined to

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